May 14, 2023 – The Slow Human

Is the cult of speed killing us slowly?

In the winter of 1967, Donald Campbell, a British world land and water speed record breaker, attempted to regain his water speed record in the tranquil setting of Coniston Water in England’s Lake District. Having already rocketed to a spectacular speed of over 310 mph (500 km/h), Campbell decided to make an even faster second run immediately. […]

Education: If we have to do it, keep it bloody cheap and efficient as possible, I say!

2 Comments / Slow Education, Slow Thoughts / Stuart

When ninetieth century British statesman Robert Lowe declared rather conceitedly “if it’s not cheap it shall be efficient; if it is not efficient it shall be cheap,” he was capturing the essence of the Revised Code, a scheme warmly introduced into British education in the mid-nineteenth century. To say that the Revised Code was all

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